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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 27, 1907
Page
7
Aas, once a boy in Beechworth Victoria, sent the shopkeeper a postal note for Qa after 30 years. The amount covers the marble value plus 5 percent compound interest, quadrupled to honor a scriptural injunction.
Ma Prince Sarre, a pastoralist, arrived after a terrible experience. His horse stumbled, breaking his ankles and crushing his body with multiple rib fractures. Black boys carried him three hundred miles in a buggy. Flies infected the ankle wound. his leg was amputated below the knee.
In the past week two young girls died after eating poisonous weeds. A similar case is reported from Clunes Victoria. Analyses show the stomachs contained hemlock, about two grains fatal to an adult. The plant resembles carrot or parsley tops. Parents are urged to warn children against eating weeds of any kind.
The notice warns residents about new restrictions from the Local Government Act. It prohibits loitering in streets and heavy breathing with arrest risk. Ordinance 546 bans placing fruit scraps in public foot areas with fines up to £50.
Mr. Tom Brown questioned the Acting Prime Minister on the status of wire netting seized by customs and alleged to be for New South Wales farmers. Sir William Lyne replied he could not confirm distribution and attributed any delays to the State Government rather than the Customs Department.
Mason Bannox who defeated Mr Thrower for The Macquarie was born at Boree Nyrang Station near Molong in 1841. He is the son of a retired naval officer and a sister of the late Sir John Bayley Darvall. Mr Barton, longtime Wellington resident, rose from Joint Stock Bank to Commercial, managed in the west, farmed at Towni, owned 4000 acres plus Nanima, and retired as Major from the 3rd Infantry Regiment.
A new company forms to acquire Paton's Gold Mining Syndicate rights to Paton's Mine Tomingley with gold leases 767 and 818, plus plant and chattels. Public shares 7500 offered with 8000 needed for registration. contracts dated 1907, with Management to be appointed by shareholders.
Expert report by H N Gibson on the Gold Hill Mine and adjacent leases near Tomingley details acreage, geology, and prior yields. It notes slate and igneous dykes, limited past work, and potential for profitable ore with £100 sinking and existing plant valued around £1500.
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